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	<title>Comments on: Over the top: Obama referenced over 15 times at the Memeo</title>
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		<title>By: saus</title>
		<link>http://hashmonean.com/2008/02/19/over-the-top-obama-referenced-over-15-times-at-the-memeo/#comment-97065</link>
		<dc:creator>saus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;d certainly have plenty of ammo in a debate regarding W Bush, on the matter at hand what is curious to me is that clearly in the US Democratic camp there&#039;s a sizeable portion of population that supports another candidate, now about 40+ % for hillary, and before about 15% for John Edwards..

These events &amp; media&#039;s role are fairly clear - Yet other than the occasional &#039;the media is soft on Obama&#039; I have not heard much in the way of alarm, protest, or even debate at the way this guy has been annointed. Going forward for partisans sake there won&#039;t be much voiceferous opposition from democrats for obvious reasons, but I&#039;m left lacking in my esteem for moderate democrats, libertarians and to a somewhat lesser extent republicans &amp; conservatives over what is clearly an automated&#160;carwash with the full&#160;package - &#039;rust protection, wax job, deluxe sheen, wheel cleaner&#039; etc..

Yesterday I heard Obama promise to end taxation of seniors, provide national healthcare, give every child the &#039;finest education possible&#039;,&#160;promise tax cuts,&#160;end&#160;involvement with Iraq, promise that if you worked at all in&#160;America you would not be poor, handle global warming, create a new America, end the Chinese juggernaut while returning every job to America and changing the whole world - I left plenty out. All this from a guy who&#039;s done squat until now but fancies speaking like a black preacher (from Hawaii &amp; illinois yet, hardly the deep south) at the end of every sentence to absorb&#160; the gospel of raucas&#160;applause.

This is proposterous on every level, yet a multi billion dollar machine employing tens of thousands of people, with companies &amp; outfits based around the world with every conceivable view - this mass of media nary has a word to say about it, and neither do many of its constituents. Have people become so shallow, ill informed &amp; dumb that they can be so easily swept up into a cult like trance over something as important as the Presidency of the United States, it&#039;s frightening. It must be politcal correctness gone mad,&#160; fear of being pinned a racist by questioning Obama, that&#039;s the only rational explanation I have personally.

btw thanks for the stimulating comment Neil
Here&#039;s a rare &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/19/chris-matthews-humiliates_n_87493.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MSNBC moment&lt;/a&gt;, a questioning of Obama &amp; the obvious result.
The Washington Post &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902336.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;weigh in&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#39;d certainly have plenty of ammo in a debate regarding W Bush, on the matter at hand what is curious to me is that clearly in the US Democratic camp there&#39;s a sizeable portion of population that supports another candidate, now about 40+ % for hillary, and before about 15% for John Edwards..</p>
<p>These events &amp; media&#39;s role are fairly clear &#8211; Yet other than the occasional &#39;the media is soft on Obama&#39; I have not heard much in the way of alarm, protest, or even debate at the way this guy has been annointed. Going forward for partisans sake there won&#39;t be much voiceferous opposition from democrats for obvious reasons, but I&#39;m left lacking in my esteem for moderate democrats, libertarians and to a somewhat lesser extent republicans &amp; conservatives over what is clearly an automated&nbsp;carwash with the full&nbsp;package &#8211; &#39;rust protection, wax job, deluxe sheen, wheel cleaner&#39; etc..</p>
<p>Yesterday I heard Obama promise to end taxation of seniors, provide national healthcare, give every child the &#39;finest education possible&#39;,&nbsp;promise tax cuts,&nbsp;end&nbsp;involvement with Iraq, promise that if you worked at all in&nbsp;America you would not be poor, handle global warming, create a new America, end the Chinese juggernaut while returning every job to America and changing the whole world &#8211; I left plenty out. All this from a guy who&#39;s done squat until now but fancies speaking like a black preacher (from Hawaii &amp; illinois yet, hardly the deep south) at the end of every sentence to absorb&nbsp; the gospel of raucas&nbsp;applause.</p>
<p>This is proposterous on every level, yet a multi billion dollar machine employing tens of thousands of people, with companies &amp; outfits based around the world with every conceivable view &#8211; this mass of media nary has a word to say about it, and neither do many of its constituents. Have people become so shallow, ill informed &amp; dumb that they can be so easily swept up into a cult like trance over something as important as the Presidency of the United States, it&#39;s frightening. It must be politcal correctness gone mad,&nbsp; fear of being pinned a racist by questioning Obama, that&#39;s the only rational explanation I have personally.</p>
<p>btw thanks for the stimulating comment Neil<br />
Here&#8217;s a rare <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/19/chris-matthews-humiliates_n_87493.html" rel="nofollow">MSNBC moment</a>, a questioning of Obama &#038; the obvious result.<br />
The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902336.html" rel="nofollow">weigh in</a></p>
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		<title>By: neil</title>
		<link>http://hashmonean.com/2008/02/19/over-the-top-obama-referenced-over-15-times-at-the-memeo/#comment-97046</link>
		<dc:creator>neil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is uncanny how pervasive this phenomenon you describe in your post is.&#160;&#160; Association and repetition work.

Take the term &quot;global warming&quot; for instance, how many times have you heard it referenced in the media?&#160; Fact:&#160; the earth&#039;s climate over the last hundred and fifty years has gotten hotter.&#160; Theory:&#160; man is the cause of this warming phenomenon.&#160; There are scientists who believe in this theory and other scientists who don&#039;t.&#160; The media however is carrying on associating and repeating this theory as if&#160;it is already proven.&#160; The scary effect this has is that media-consumers will now associate&#160;global warming with man-made carbon emissions when&#160;in fact no scientist can say definitively&#160;why the earth is getting hotter.&#160; 

Joseph Goebbels - the&#160;Nazi propagandist -&#160;also used this same association technique&#160;by repeatedly interspersing imagery of Jews and rats.&#160; May of the consumers of his propaganda came to&#160;recognize Jews&#160;to be&#160;sub-human vermin as a result.

While I personally think the Bush II presidency was a disaster, and on this point we may disagree, I share your disgust with the blatant manipulative techniques&#160;that&#160;are used to promote the media&#039;s agenda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is uncanny how pervasive this phenomenon you describe in your post is.&nbsp;&nbsp; Association and repetition work.</p>
<p>Take the term &quot;global warming&quot; for instance, how many times have you heard it referenced in the media?&nbsp; Fact:&nbsp; the earth&#39;s climate over the last hundred and fifty years has gotten hotter.&nbsp; Theory:&nbsp; man is the cause of this warming phenomenon.&nbsp; There are scientists who believe in this theory and other scientists who don&#39;t.&nbsp; The media however is carrying on associating and repeating this theory as if&nbsp;it is already proven.&nbsp; The scary effect this has is that media-consumers will now associate&nbsp;global warming with man-made carbon emissions when&nbsp;in fact no scientist can say definitively&nbsp;why the earth is getting hotter.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Joseph Goebbels &#8211; the&nbsp;Nazi propagandist -&nbsp;also used this same association technique&nbsp;by repeatedly interspersing imagery of Jews and rats.&nbsp; May of the consumers of his propaganda came to&nbsp;recognize Jews&nbsp;to be&nbsp;sub-human vermin as a result.</p>
<p>While I personally think the Bush II presidency was a disaster, and on this point we may disagree, I share your disgust with the blatant manipulative techniques&nbsp;that&nbsp;are used to promote the media&#39;s agenda.</p>
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